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In Beckles, SCOTUS Perpetuates the Advisory Guidelines Fantasy
Mar 8, 2017(Comments: 0)March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The United States Supreme Court ruled on a major federal sentencing guidelines case this week. For the last decade plus, since the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Booker, the guidelines... -
IRS Dogpiles Carlo Marinello for His Poor Recordkeeping
Feb 28, 2017(Comments: 0)February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Good legislative drafting is hard to do. And bad legislative drafting is easy to do. In the criminal sphere, bad drafting leads to open-ended statutes with broad terms defining an...